An extensive documentation of the small ugliness of the suburbs of Rome that add up to create a seamless visual noise. A “brick book”, which conveys this overabundance and visual violence. A brick where is predominant the red color in contrast and vibration with the electric blue recreating the visual energy of the photographs.

Massimo Siragusa’s photographs are accompanied by an unpublished screenplay by Ugo Gregoretti about building speculation. The book is designed by Tomo Tomo with all text set in Neue Helvetica, the most common and unaware used typeface in the city’s chaotic signs.

The book was published by Edizioni Postcart at the occasion of an exhibition of Siragusa’s photo series at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

Twenty-five interviews, twenty-five funny and unexpected stories, twenty-five of the greatest masters of photography of the twentieth century interviewed by the photoeditor Giovanna Calvenzi, who in the 80s, for Il Fotografo magazine, made these small talks. All accompanied by the often intimate and unexpected photographs of Calvenzi herself.

The whole book plays on the value of the masters interviewed and their names, enhancing it with a peremptory and expressive typography set in Girott (designed by Radim Peško). Body text uses Suisse Works.The masters interviewed include Erwitt, Kertész, Giacomelli, Klein, Lartigue, Sieff, Toscani, Doisneau, Berengo Gardin among many others. Book design by Tomo Tomo, published by Postcart.